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"external forces drove its development" The worst of Stalin's purges were well before WW2 - I don't think you can blame external forces, certainly not ones act
by arethuza 7y ago
"external forces drove its development"
The worst of Stalin's purges were well before WW2 - I don't think you can blame external forces, certainly not ones active at that time, for Stalin's vicious paranoia.
- mirimir 7y agoThe foreign hate and intervention started long before Stalin.
- rangibaby 7y agoThe allies of WWI literally invaded Russian to intervene on the anti-Soviet side. I think that is the dictionary definition of an external force.
- cryptonector 7y agoThe purges came later. There was no external force driving those, only internal forces (specifically: Stalin's unquenchable thirst for power).